Inria Chile continues its development in South America. In recent years, with Claude Puech at the helm, she has strengthened her network of contacts and has set up partnerships with investment structures to accelerate the creation of strategies in Chile. Appointed on September 1st as Director, Nayat Sanchez Pi intends to pursue this strategy and implement an ambitious settlement project that includes opening to French partners, the revitalization of the transfer policy and the establishment of a sustainable economic model.

Thirty years ago, the Web was set up to meet an ever-growing need to organise and access information. As a founding member for Europe of the W3C, Inria take a look back at the birth of the Web as both a research subject and a tool, assessing the problems that continue to be raised.

Capitalizing on five years of research-collaboration success, Mitacs and Inria renewed their partnership originally signed in 2014. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) supports two-way international research opportunities for graduate researchers at Canadian universities and at eight Inria Research Centres in France.

The CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) and Inria have awarded the 2017 "privacy protection" Prize to a European research team. During the 11th international conference Computers Privacy and Data Protection
(CPDP) to Seda GÜRSES, Carmela TRONCOSO and Claudia DIAZ for their article « Engineering privacy by design reloaded
».

The CCSD (Centre for Direct Scientific Communication) and Software Heritage have announced their collaboration beginning early 2018: it will enable the data repository in HAL to be extended to software and, as a result, contribute to the recognition of the work of research software developers.

Facebook is investing an additional 10 million Euros and doubling the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team in order to accelerate research on artificial intelligence in France. As a result, Facebook's European hub is strengthening its partnership with Inria.

Facebook is investing an additional 10 million Euros and doubling the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team in order to accelerate research on artificial intelligence in France. As a result, Facebook's European hub is strengthening its partnership with Inria.

InriaSoft aims for the durable development of large-scale software programs by bringing together their user communities within consortia that will finance a team of engineers tasked with their maintenance and evolution. The InriaSoft headquarters are based in Rennes, as Claude Labit, director, and David Margery, technical director of this national action backed by the Fondation Inria, explain.

Isabelle Herlin, knight of the order of Merit

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Isabelle Herlin, Director of the Inria Lille-Nord Europe Center, was made a knight of the order of Merit (chevalier de l'ordre du Mérite) in November 2017.

A Research Director since 1996, Isabelle Herlin has successively set up two Inria research teams. From 1995 to 2005, for the Air project-team, she led and managed work on satellite image processing with topics such as farming and deforestation. Then, from 2005 to 2016, she led the Clime project-team, devoted to studying interactions between data and numerical forecast models, with, for example, applications to air quality, oceanography, meteorology, and photovoltaic generation. She thus co-ordinates the Inria Innovation Lab Rain_Nowcast, with the company Weather Measures
, on the problem of rain nowcasting for farmers, and on flash-flood risk management.

Isabelle Herlin is also a member of the scientific board of Andra and is on the higher council for strategic training and research (CSFRS).

Director of the Inria Lille – Nord Europe Center since 1st March 2017, Isabelle Herlin, accompanied by the science delegate, Christophe Biernacki, and the administration delegate of the center, Ludivine Deloux, is leading a new strategy for science and for regional development. Strong ties are being forged with the surrounding ecosystem, in particular in the context of the new University of Lille (after a merger of the existing universities) and of the ULNE I-Site. The development of the center is being accompanied by a location (by the end of 2018) on the EuraTechnologies site of excellence, which is the hub of the region's French Tech ecosystem. Reinforcing the center's positioning on the international stage and making it a place of well-being, based on teamwork, are the main missions that Antoine Petit set Isabelle Herlin when she was appointed. This strategy for developing the center has been taken on board by all of the members of the management team, by the heads of the project-teams, and more generally by all of the members of the center.